al-Waqidi
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Al-Waqidi was an early Muslim historian and biographer renowned for his detailed accounts of the Prophet Muhammad’s life and the early Islamic conquests.
All labels observed (2)
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T6873754 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: al-Waqidi Context triple: [Islamic biographical literature (sira), hasNotableAuthor, al-Waqidi]
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A.
Ghatafan ibn Saʿd
Ghatafan ibn Saʿd is regarded as the eponymous ancestor and progenitor of the Arab tribal confederation known as Banu Ghatafan.
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B.
Al-Bujairi
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C.
Abu Dawud al-Sijistani
Abu Dawud al-Sijistani was a 9th-century Islamic scholar and hadith compiler best known for authoring one of the six major Sunni hadith collections, Sunan Abu Dawud.
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D.
Ayat Al-Qurmezi
Ayat Al-Qurmezi is a Bahraini poet and activist known for her role in the 2011 pro-democracy protests, during which she was imprisoned for reciting poems critical of the government.
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E.
Ibn Juzayy
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- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: al-Waqidi Target entity description: Al-Waqidi was an early Muslim historian and biographer renowned for his detailed accounts of the Prophet Muhammad’s life and the early Islamic conquests.
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A.
Ghatafan ibn Saʿd
Ghatafan ibn Saʿd is regarded as the eponymous ancestor and progenitor of the Arab tribal confederation known as Banu Ghatafan.
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B.
Al-Bujairi
Al-Bujairi is a historic district in Diriyah, Saudi Arabia, known for its restored traditional architecture, cultural attractions, and scenic views overlooking the Wadi Hanifah.
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C.
Abu Dawud al-Sijistani
Abu Dawud al-Sijistani was a 9th-century Islamic scholar and hadith compiler best known for authoring one of the six major Sunni hadith collections, Sunan Abu Dawud.
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D.
Ayat Al-Qurmezi
Ayat Al-Qurmezi is a Bahraini poet and activist known for her role in the 2011 pro-democracy protests, during which she was imprisoned for reciting poems critical of the government.
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E.
Ibn Juzayy
Ibn Juzayy was a 14th-century Andalusian scholar and writer best known for compiling and editing the famous travel account of the explorer Ibn Battuta.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Muslim
ⓘ
biographer ⓘ hadith narrator ⓘ historian ⓘ |
| century |
8th century
ⓘ
9th century ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | circa 747 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | circa 823 ⓘ |
| employer |
Abbasid administration in Baghdad
ⓘ
linked to:
Abbasid administration
|
| era | early Abbasid period ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
Islamic history
ⓘ
biographical literature ⓘ maghazi (accounts of military campaigns) ⓘ |
| fullName | Muhammad ibn Umar al-Waqidi ⓘ |
| genre |
futuh (conquests)
ⓘ
maghazi (military campaigns) ⓘ sira (biography of the Prophet) ⓘ |
| givenName |
Muhammad
ⓘ
linked to:
Mohammad
|
| influenced | Ibn Sa'd ⓘ |
| knownFor |
accounts of early Islamic conquests
ⓘ
detailed accounts of the Prophet Muhammad’s life ⓘ early sira and maghazi literature ⓘ |
| language | Arabic ⓘ |
| name | al-Waqidi ⓘ |
| nisba | al-Waqidi ⓘ |
| notableSubject |
Prophet Muhammad
ⓘ
linked to:
Muhammad
early Islamic conquests ⓘ |
| occupation |
biographer
ⓘ
historian ⓘ judge ⓘ qadi ⓘ |
| patronymic |
ibn Umar
ⓘ
linked to:
Ibn Umar
|
| placeOfBirth |
Arabian Peninsula
ⓘ
Hejaz ⓘ Medina ⓘ |
| placeOfDeath |
Abbasid Caliphate
ⓘ
Baghdad ⓘ |
| position | qadi of the western quarter of Baghdad ⓘ |
| religion | Islam ⓘ |
| reputationInHadithCriticism | weak narrator ⓘ |
| reputationInHistoriography | important early Islamic historian ⓘ |
| residence |
Baghdad
ⓘ
Medina ⓘ |
| sourceType | primary source for early Islamic history ⓘ |
| student | Ibn Sa'd ⓘ |
| traditionWithin | Sunni Islam ⓘ |
| work |
Futuh al-Sham (attributed)
ⓘ
Kitab al-Maghazi ⓘ
linked to:
Maghazi of al-Waqidi
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How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: al-Waqidi Description of subject: Al-Waqidi was an early Muslim historian and biographer renowned for his detailed accounts of the Prophet Muhammad’s life and the early Islamic conquests.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
linked to: al-Waqidi